Ruxandra Guidi
ReporterRuxandra Guidi was the Fronteras reporter at KPBS, covering immigration, border issues and culture. She’s a journalist and producer with experience working in radio, print, and multimedia, and has reported from the Caribbean, South and Central America, as well as the U.S.-Mexico border region.
She’s a recipient of Johns Hopkins University’s International Reporting Project (IRP) Fellowship, which took her to Haiti for a project about development aid and human rights in 2008. That year, she was also a finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting, given to U.S. journalists under 35 years of age.
Previously, she did reporting and production work for the BBC public radio news program, The World. Her stories focused on Latin American politics, human rights, rural communities, immigration, popular culture and music. After earning a Master’s degree in journalism from U.C. Berkeley in 2002, she worked for independent radio producers The Kitchen Sisters. In 2003, she moved to Austin, TX, where she did production and reporting work for NPR’s weekly show, Latino USA.
Ruxandra has also produced features and documentaries for the BBC World Service in Spanish, National Public Radio, The Walrus Magazine, Guernica Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, World Vision Report, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Dispatches and Marketplace radio programs. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Ruxandra is now based in San Diego, California.
-
Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk and junk bond creator Michael Milken were among the recipients of the 2024 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award.
-
Fire-Rescue Department Chief Colin Stowell is retiring in August. Job candidates will undergo a series of interviews, including one with a panel of community leaders nominated by city councilmembers and the mayor.
-
More than 50 other countries have already banned the substance, which has been known to lead to lung and ovarian cancer, mesothelioma and other deadly illnesses.
-
Last week, a federal appeals court ordered Navarro to surrender to a federal prison in Florida on March 19 to serve his four-month sentence.
-
Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. Is the world still at risk of recession or have we shaken off the post-Covid blues? Ian Bremmer looks at the health of the global economy amid ongoing wars in the Middle East and Europe with economist and author Dambisa Moyo. Then, the everyday people filling a crucial gap amid New York’s migrant crisis.
-
Henry Foster III, jefe de personal de la Supervisora del Condado Monica Montgomery Steppe, representará el Distrito 4 del Consejo de la Ciudad de San Diego, siguiendo la última actualización del conteo de votos de la elección de la semana pasada.
- A glimpse of the chaos in Haiti, a country reeling with effectively no leader
- Del Mar youth sports venue draws controversy and a lawsuit
- A Florida man who refused to sell his home to a developer now lives in the shadows
- Plan to watch the eclipse from a wild mountain summit? Be ready for harsh conditions
- Mayor Gloria announces 'Complete Communities Now' housing program